Paul et Virginie (NEMLA 2013)

Paul et Virginie

Originally published in French 1788, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie has been translated throughout the 19th century, notably into English, Spanish, and German. Since the early 1990s, however, this Mauritian pastoral romance has fallen out of critical focus. Consequently, this panel will re-read Paul et Virginie and the ways in which its tropes have been interpreted and re-appropriated in subsequent artistic ...